02nd Oct 2008
replacing the glass ceiling?
Why do I have the feeling that the women in this election have set women’s rights backward instead of forward? Now of course this is just my opinion, and should be treated as such (as well as the fact that I slept late after teaching late last night) but neither Hillary or Sarah Palin have helped women at all. Hillary wouldn’t let it go until absolutely the last minute and if she’s been campaigning for Obama, I’ve missed it.
And then we have Sarah Palin. As a westerner who has actually fired a shotgun (although never field dressed anything — now I hear she hasn’t either), she’s making all of us look bad. The vague answers, the naive assumption that proximity to Russia equals foreign policy experience, and the use of the interviewer’s name when she can’t think of the answer (”Charlie, what do you mean by the Bush doctrine?”) make me nuts. Depending on the outcome, she could either be elected to the second highest office in the land, under a man whose health is in question, or she could lose. Either way, she’ll give people plenty of reasons to distrust women in politics and that’s exactly what I don’t want to happen.
Tonight’s debate will help shape which way this goes. I hope something good comes out of it. And I kinda wish Hillary was debating Palin — I have a feeling that she’d eat Sarah Barracuda alive. If things are going to be as bad as this, we might as well turn it into a cage match and not let anyone get away with saying stupid, vague things. The country is in crisis, you idiot politicians. Now is the time to step up and be counted.
I did notice how often Palin said “Charlie” in that interview. I am going to start doing that now when I don’t know an answer. She isn’t making women look bad though. She is making you all look hot! Well.. ok.. she is making her self look hot.
Yuk. I can’t believe you think she is hot.